A security agreement with Afghanistan that provided for a continuing relationship and some kind of joint facilities and so on for training, for counterterrorism, and so on beyond 2014 I think would be very much in our interests.
Panetta reflects on Secretary Gates' statement about a security agreement with Afghanistan.
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Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.
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